Problem with any GTK or openbox theme that's not black or dark: character set colour remains white or white-ish, in other words unreadable. Poor user...

Otherwise looks good, great concept, but... funny how a little detail like that can spoil months of work, eh?

Please provide a way to change the font colour, and your implementation will be really great.

Also, there seems to be no easy way to mount drives on your distro. Access to pmount is not intuitive, as from a menu.

Best regards.

Hello,
Thanks for notifying me, I will fix that in the next version. To change the font color in Rox, right-click any blank space, choose "options," then "colours."

You are right there there is not a fast enough method of mounting drives! The quickest way is by opening PupControl, where it is located at the bottom. I have been contemplating adding pmount to the main menu for a while now. Hmm, I may very well do so in the next version, thank you!

Sheepy - I'm considering loading the gtk-youtube downloader mentioned here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76835
Which one of those versions would be suitable for 3.7 (what repo is it based on please?)
Also, is this idea possibly redundant? Is there already something similar already installed in 3.7 that you use to find/download YT stuff?
cheers

EDIT I decided the lupu one was the correct one and have loaded it - but I can't find it in a menu anywhere. Any suggestions?Last edited by greengeek on Sat 27 Oct 2012, 05:39; edited 1 time in total

Also, there seems to be no easy way to mount drives on your distro. Access to pmount is not intuitive, as from a menu.

The mounting difficulty was fustrating for me too, so I placed sunburnt's "mnt_all" script in the /root/startup folder (and renamed it to "Zmnt_all" so it would run after anything else that was already programmed in Startup). Works well, so that now filesave dialogs can immediately find all drives premounted. (and I just rightclick the desktop and select filemanager to find anything else I am looking for). Maybe not as elegant as an icon on the desktop - but hey, I am enjoying the crisp icon-free look.

(and I just found out that I can set up browser bookmarks to the mounted drives as in this example:

Code:

file:///mnt/sda2

That way once I'm in the browser I can just open another tab to do my local hardrive filebrowsing and not even use the normal filemanager)

Here is the script:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
######### This script mounts all partitions found.

### Use at your own risk... No warranty!

# For auto. mounting at bootup, put this script in Puppy folder: /root/Startup

# After bootup, if other drives are plugged in, run mnt-all again to mount them.

Sheepy - I'm considering loading the gtk-youtube downloader mentioned here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76835
Which one of those versions would be suitable for 3.7 (what repo is it based on please?)
Also, is this idea possibly redundant? Is there already something similar already installed in 3.7 that you use to find/download YT stuff?
cheers

EDIT I decided the lupu one was the correct one and have loaded it - but I can't find it in a menu anywhere. Any suggestions?

There is! If you open Firefox, it has the Ant Downloader addon preinstalled. It will allow you to download Youtube videos and many other sites too.
Also, the reason why it is not in the menu is because slimpup does not use the XDG menu that automatically adds things to it (it is very cluttered in my opinion). If you just right click > settings > appearance > openbox menu, you can use this simple GUI to edit and customize the items in the openbox right-click menu.

greengeek wrote:

Also - if you want newly plugged in usb sticks to be easily mounted it is possible to alter the /etc/eventmanager file so that "hotplug" events bring up Pmount.

Navigate to /etc/eventmanager and "open as text", then look about halfway down and find "HOTPLUGNOISY" and change it from FALSE to TRUE.

That way when you plug in a usb stick Pmount will pop up and give you the chance to mount it, and then easliy unmount it when you've finished with it.

I have an inconsistency booting up SlimPup 3.7 from CD-RW. Two out of three times SlimPup did not enter, and my permanent OS in HDD booted instead.

In addition, when I tried to save settings in the CD, the system did not respond, and I had to do a hard reset. I made the ISO using the "SAO" option, to allow latter for the savefile in it.

I verified my hardware booting with Puppy Linux 5.4 "Precise" and it responded fast as expected. In this case the CD-R was burnt with the "Finalize" option.

Please advice. Thank you.

Hello,
I have never experienced unresponsiveness when trying to save settings to the CD. Hmmm. I know there is a command in puppy to save changes to disc while still in X, but I do not remember the command.
What is the permanent OS you have on HDD? Can you give me your hardware specs? Also, have you tried burning slimpup using the finalize option instead of SAO?

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